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A client contracted us to complete their migration from Windows Vista to Windows 7 by the end of 2014, with minimal user impact. This involved nearly 500 machines at various locations in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. We leveraged System Center Configuration Manager 2012 with Microsoft's User State Migration Tool to achieve this goal. We created the gold image as a "fat image" with the company's standard software baked in - mainly to save time during deployments. As we addressed each location, we assessed their non-standard software needs and created deployments within SCCM to automate the process as much as possible. As an additional requirement, the client requested that we prepare their infrastructure for an upgrade from Office 2007 to Office 2010. After preparing the Office 2010 deployment itself, we authored Group Policy to carry over their corporate standards and settings from Office 2007 to Office 2010.